Question period liveblog: Welcome to our viewers – CSEC included

With the latest leak from the Snowden documents suggesting CSEC used Canadian airport travellers as guinea pigs to test out powerful data-collection software it was developing with the NSA — well, you could guess what was going to dominate much of the agenda in the usually-sleepy Friday question period.

Mulcair is out of town, so Nathan Cullen led the questioning. Before he got a chance, though, Paul Calandra — parliamentary secretary to the prime minister — preempted the grilling with a doozy of a member’s statement.